Description:
Originally published in French, this English edition offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary reading of Capital, challenging dominant mainstream interpretations that overlook Marx's critique of capitalist society. The book reveals Marx's analysis of labor exploitation as a biopolitical struggle between capital and living labor.
Review Quotes:
Jacques Bidet offers us an original, rigorous, and highly contemporary approach to Capital. He shows how this book display a politics of life. What it is dealing with is life embodied in bodies that expend energy, work, and produce, but also associate and struggle politically. In his view, this is not so much about the state's management of the population's life, as in Foucault, but rather what could be called a biopolitics from below, that is, a politics that gives substance to the demands that arise within capitalism.
Ricardo Bernal, Professor at Universidad La Salle, Mexico, Director of Logos, Revista de Filosofia, Mexico